Who were the best presenters? Who learned what? What happened outside of the sessions at the Health Care & Business Institute 2015 in Phoenix? See the tweets and posts that tell it like it is: http://on.asha.org/1JAMNBe﻿

While the temperature soared outside in the Phoenix sun, attendees at HCBI stayed cool and learned what's in store for private practice and health care professionals. Check out what they were tweeting and posting about!

Throwback Thursday! Who remembers these? Back when print was king, three copies of Language Speech & Hearing Services in Schools from 1983-1985! You can find today's LSHSS online at http://journals.pubs.asha.org/journals.aspx. Happy reading!﻿

Beginning your new adventure of being a speech-language pathologist or audiologist? Don't let it just happen; Take charge of where you are going by answering these three very important questions: http://on.asha.org/1JuGoYl﻿

Want to go to ASHA 2015 in Denver? Want to support the professions through the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation? With a little luck, you can do both! Be sure to purchase your ASHA 2015 raffle tickets by July 30! http://on.asha.org/1ISgSQi﻿

Can you test a child's reading potential before the child has even tried reading? Researchers at Northwestern University say it's possible with a 30-minute test. Check it out:http://on.asha.org/1JxRBHC﻿

In a recent study in the Journal of Speech Language Hearing Research, researchers evaluate performance of the Language Environment Analysis automated language-analysis system for the Chinese Shanghai dialect and Mandarin languages. See what hey found as the results are promising for broader cross-linguistic applications. http://on.asha.org/1H0z46X﻿

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate performance of the Language Environment Analysis (LENA) automated language-analysis system for the Chinese Shanghai dialect and Mandarin (SDM) languages. Method: Volunteer parents of 22 children aged 3–23 months were recruited in Shanghai. Families provided daylong ...

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Introduction

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 166,000 members and affiliates who are audiologists, speech-language pathologists, speech, language, and hearing scientists, audiology and speech-language pathology support personnel, and students. Audiologists specialize in preventing and assessing hearing and balance disorders as well as providing audiologic treatment, including hearing aids. Speech-language pathologists identify, assess, and treat speech and language problems, including swallowing disorders.